I am experiencing the same problem in Intrepid, on a DELL Inspiron 1525. Basically it seems that all the sound recording settings (both through gnome volume control and alsamixer) don't affect the actual volume at all.
Attaching lspci output ** Attachment added: "lspci -v" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19767299/lspci -- audio recording very silent https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275998 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
